Why Shacking Up is Bad

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🗓️ 22 April 2026

⏱️ 6 minutes

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0:28.4	I wanted to talk about something that has become epidemic.
0:34.4	Where was that?
0:35.7	Just a second.
0:36.8	Shacking up. Hmm. Cohabitation, aka. Shacking up. With no marriage.
0:46.6	In the United States has increased more than 1,500 percent in the past 50 years.
0:55.1	In 1960, about 450,000 unmarried couples lived together.
0:59.8	Now the number is more than 7.5 million.
1:05.0	And in this particular article,
1:06.8	here are a few of the reasons couples cite for shacking up.
1:10.6	One. One of them is hoping that it's a step toward... Here are a few of the reasons couples cite for shacking up.
1:15.6	One of them is hoping that it's a step toward a proposal.
1:18.1	Which one do you think that is, the man or the woman?
1:21.3	Think about that for a moment.
1:25.5	You keep thinking.
1:29.8	Number two, want to see if they're compatible as roommates.
1:32.9	And three, to save money on rent.
1:34.7	Yeah.
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